The New American Third Reader

by Epes Sargent

Excerpt from The New American Third Reader

DO you see that old beggar who stands at the door? DO not send him away: we must pity the poor. Oh, see how he Shivers he's hungry and cold, And he can not well work, he is so very Old.

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140 pages, Hardcover

Published January 19, 2018

About the author

Epes Sargent (1813–1880) was an American editor, poet and playwright. He was the son of Epes Sargent (1784–1853) and Hannah Dane Coffin (1787–1819), and was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on September 27, 1813, where his father was a ship master. In 1818 the family moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts. From 1823 to 1829 he attended the Boston Latin School, but his education was put on hold while he traveled for six months to Saint Petersburg, Russia with his father. Upon his return he helped start the school's first literary journal, where he wrote about his travels to Russia. He then attended Harvard University where he contributed to the Harvard Collegian, a college literary journal which was started by his older brother, John Osborn Sargent (1811–1891), who became a successful politician and journalist. Sargent died in Boston from oral cancer on December 30, 1880.

Works

The Bride of Genoa (1836)
Velasco: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1839)
The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems (1844)
Fleetwood, or the Stain of Birth (1845)
Songs of the Sea and Other Poems (1847)
The Life and Services of Henry Clay (1848)
Poems (1858)
Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition (1864)
Planchette, or the Despair of Science (1869)
The Woman Who Dared (1870)
The Proof Palpable of Immortality (1875)
The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism (1880)
Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets (1881)